Partially addresses #11473
MVP of dev containers with the following capabilities:
- If in a project with `.devcontainer/devcontainer.json`, a pop-up
notification will ask if you want to open the project in a dev
container. This can be dismissed:
<img width="1478" height="1191" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-08 at 3 15
23 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec2e20d6-28ec-4495-8f23-4c1d48a9ce78"
/>
- Similarly, if a `devcontainer.json` file is in the project, you can
open a devcontainer (or go the devcontainer.json file for further
editing) via the `open remote` modal:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61f2fdaa-2808-4efc-994c-7b444a92c0b1
*Limitations*
This is a first release, and comes with some limitations:
- Zed extensions are not managed in `devcontainer.json` yet. They will
need to be installed either on host or in the container. Host +
Container sync their extensions, so there is not currently a concept of
what is installed in the container vs what is installed on host: they
come from the same list of manifests
- This implementation uses the [devcontainer
CLI](https://github.com/devcontainers/cli) for its control plane. Hence,
it does not yet support the `forwardPorts` directive. A single port can
be opened with `appPort`. See reference in docs
[here](https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/tree/main/example-usage#how-the-tool-examples-work)
- Editing devcontainer.json does not automatically cause the dev
container to be rebuilt. So if you add features, change images, etc, you
will need to `docker kill` the existing dev container before proceeding.
- Currently takes a hard dependency on `docker` being available in the
user's `PATH`.
Release Notes:
- Added ability to Open a project in a DevContainer, provided a
`.devcontainer/devcontainer.json` is present
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Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <daniloleal09@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
This is a pure refactor that consolidates all SSH remoting logic such
that it should be straightforward to add another transport to the
remoting system.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikayla.c.maki@gmail.com>
This ensures that we only ever reconnect to a running server and not
spawn a new server with no state.
This avoids the problem of the server process crashing, `proxy`
reconnecting, starting a new server, and the user getting errors like
"unknown buffer id: ...".
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Bennet Bo Fenner <bennet@zed.dev>
This restructures the code in `remote` so that it's easier to replace
the current SSH connection with a new one in case of
disconnects/reconnects.
Right now, it successfully reconnects, BUT we're still missing the big
piece on the server-side: keeping the server process alive and
reconnecting to the same process that keeps the project-state.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Bennet <bennet@zed.dev>
Still TODO:
* [x] hide this UI unless you have some ssh projects in settings
* [x] add the "open folder" flow with the new open picker
* [ ] integrate with recent projects / workspace restoration
Release Notes:
- N/A
This is a first step towards allowing you to edit remote projects
directly over SSH. We'll start with a pretty bare-bones feature set, and
incrementally add further features.
### Todo
Distribution
* [x] Build nightly releases of `zed-remote-server` binaries
* [x] linux (arm + x86)
* [x] mac (arm + x86)
* [x] Build stable + preview releases of `zed-remote-server`
* [x] download and cache remote server binaries as needed when opening
ssh project
* [x] ensure server has the latest version of the binary
Auth
* [x] allow specifying password at the command line
* [x] auth via ssh keys
* [x] UI password prompt
Features
* [x] upload remote server binary to server automatically
* [x] opening directories
* [x] tracking file system updates
* [x] opening, editing, saving buffers
* [ ] file operations (rename, delete, create)
* [ ] git diffs
* [ ] project search
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Piotr Osiewicz <24362066+osiewicz@users.noreply.github.com>
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Lukas WirthandMax Brunsfeld
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